Dr. John French, Organist & Choirmaster

John French, organist/choirmaster at The Church of the Holy Trinity since 1992, has been active as a church musician for over thirty-five years. Dr. French is the William F. Heefner Professor of Music at Ursinus College. He has received the Laughlin Professional Achievement Award and Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from the college in recognition of his professional and scholarly accomplishments. Dr. French is also the associate conductor of the Mendelssohn Club Chorus of Philadelphia.

Dr. French has degrees from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts, Westminster Choir College and the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. In addition to other grants and awards he has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities.